The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-12-09
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COLONEL j. A. CoCKERILL, of the World,
has been elected president of the New York
Press Club. Paul Dana, of the Sun, was
elected first vice president
PATRICK O'KINAHAN and Larry Culpin.
miners employed at the Sugar Notch mine
of the Hanover Coal Company at Wilkes
barre, Pa, were caught in a heavy fall of
rock and coal the other morning and
crushed to death.
TNE New York Court of Appeals has or
dered new trial for Jacob Sharp, convict
ed of bribery in the Broadway surface rail
way matter.
HERR MosT, the Anarchist, was convicted
by the jury in New York on the 29th. Sen
tence was deferred until the question of q
new trial was settled.
The leading dry goods COMMISSION house
of Brown, Wood & Kingman, New York,
has gone into liquidation. 1t was dong q
business of fl2. OO0OO0 a year.
AT Walton's guarres near Hummels-
town, Pa, recently three men were killed
by a fall of rock and earth.
The Fall River Yarn Company has been
organized with a capital Of So0.OCO. 1t will
build mill with ooJ. 900 spindles.
JAMES MCLAUGHLIN and Robert Perry,
fishermen, were drowned on Lake Erie,
near Erie. Pa, recently, half mile of
shore. Their boat was overloaded with
fish, causing the broken ice to wash into
the boat and swampit
The Manhattan Elevated Railway Com
pany, Of New York. has decided to issue a
new blanket mortgage Of $1,000, O0O at five
Per cent, to take up the present seven per
cent bonds, buy additional real estate and
make improvements. OF this amount
f. ~ Anp~@ 81
Coz, to be delivered January 1 next.
A NATURAL gas well became ignited near
Pittsburgh, Pa, the other day, causing an
explosion that occasioned serious injury to
five men.
The bodies Of thirteen infants, each about
i've months developed, were recently
found in jars in the cellar of Aspinalrs
drug store at Jersey City, N. J. They had
apparently been there long time.
ALEXANDER TAYLOR, q driver of q New
York mail wagon, has been arrested for
wholesale robbery Of the mails. In one
batch he secured three drafts for 2,Oll,
$500 and $125 respectively. One letter con-
tanned thirteen drafts from down town
bank. He confessed his guilt He had
been in this country only six weeks and
had been driving the wagon three weeks.
The Official returns from the Massachu-
sets election show that Governor Ames
had a plurality of 1905. while that OF the
rest of the Republican State ticket aver
aged q. 600.
JAcoB SHARP, the New York boodler,
was released on bond on the LIST, pending q
new trial.
PREssMEN's Union No. 9, of New York,
recently sued William Amison, Of Nash
Vile Tenn, president Of the Typographical
Union, to compel him to restore their
charter. Judge Lacombe ruled that the
suit must be broug ht in the district where
AmiSon resides.
AT a special meeting Of the Beecher
Statue Fund Committee at Brooklyn reso-
buttons were adopted generating Rev. DR..
Parker from the charge of having improp-
erly received payment for his eulogy upon
Mr.. Beecher, and declaring that the mis-
understanding about the affair was the re-
suit Of conflicting cablegrams.
MAYOR HEWITT. of New York. appointed
the following delegates 20 represent that
city at the peace conference IN Washing
Ton: David Dudley Field, Andrew Ca-ne-
gle, Dorman B. Eaton, Morris K. Jessop
ana Charles Nordhof.
the locomotive of freight train on the
Philadelphia 4 Reading railroad exploded
near East Mahouoy Junction the other
morning killing the ersicec., fireman and
two brakemen.
JAMES E. QUINN, mas'e. workman of dis.
trict assembly AZ, has been arrested to
answer the charge of having assaulted a
reporter OF the New York Iyiosne. Quinn
pushed the reporter down stairs.